Swinney gets final in person with Lawson

Monday

Jan 28, 2013 at 11:03 PM

Phil Kornblut

Clemson's Dabo Swinney will be the last head coach in contention for DE Carl Lawson of Alpharetta, GA to make his in home visit when he goes in this week, probably Wednesday. Swinney is in Hawaii where he will visit Scott Pagano Tuesday. Gus Malzahn of Auburn, Butch Jones of Tennessee and Larry Fedora have made their visits. Auburn defensive line coach Rodney Garner and two other Auburn assistants visited Monday. Clemson assistants Marion Hobby and Tony Elliott are due in Tuesday. Lawson remains up in the air over everything. "He said coach, I don't know what I'm going to do," Milton High coach Howie DeCristofaro said. "He's going to Auburn this weekend. They've all go their positives, they've all got their negatives. We'll get together when he gets back, talk and decide what's best for him." Try as he might, DeCristofaro is having a hard time reading the tea leaves. "He'll say something about one school, like he likes the facilities at Tennessee," the coach said, "and then he'll say he feels comfortable at Clemson because of the college atmosphere. And then he'll say something about the Auburn defensive coaches. He really likes those guys." Lawson will announce a decision on Signing Day.

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